UPDATE: Mom home from Hospital! :)
original post Friday... https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211599694
So I got down there yesterday after they had been giving her fluids and an iron infusion overnight. TOTAL turnaround!
She is still speaking slower and getting a few words wrong here & there. Though the MRI says no new strokes, she's still having trouble reading. But no paralysis, it was the GI tract that turned on her this time.
She had been told a month ago she has severe anemia (meanwhile they gave her an oral iron and were dicking around getting her a transfusion/infusion)...so the iron agitated her already fragile GI (she has ulcers and diverticulitis) and she started vomiting...couldn't stop 24 hours later she's dehydrated to the point of unconscious.
I'd like to get mad at things, drs, nurses...but she's ok now and after 5 bags of fluids and 2 infusions she's actually home.
The hospital dr said the cognitive issues can also be due to the anemia & imbalances in things like electrolytes, etc.
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I had a chance to go see my mentor before seeing mom yesterday. She helped me ground and look at it from a more balanced place. Since I am the one mom feels more trustworthy talking to about death, I get to take the challenge and be there for heron that level. I had a moment before sis and dad showed up in the hospital yesterday and I told her she doesn't get to just leave the planet on a whim. If she wants go go, she has to give me a signal 
and meanwhile we can allow for her to move out of her role as cook/maid/etc to the role of honored elder and wisdomkeeper. We are gong to take away her duties, she can clean what she WANTS to clean, but the scrubbing is not her job. And meantime I am going to be taking her out and doing things with her to encourage her blossoming in that way. We're making a "bucket list" of sorts...weekly tea parties with her granddaughter, going to the ballet (we've never been), etc...she even said something about volunteering for the hospital auxillary (the older ladies that run the thrift store).
That made a huge difference for us to have that talk.
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So while we settle into caretaking mode as a family and get home nurses checking in...we also have to have notaries and lawyer and get some things worked out so my sister doesn't have any more control than me. My folks have a lot of stocks and property and it's already in a trust with both of us on it. But they bought me a house three years ago and my name is not on the deed yet. That needs to change.
My mom stopped both of us after dad left the room as we were leaving yesterday and said we need to have a family meeting and get in touch with the lawyer...I said something about my deed and my sister made a comment that just didn't set quite right. She's the one who has the "perfect" marriage, life, job and could afford her own house, etc. while I am the one she thinks takes advantage of my parents because I'm single, poor, mom of 3, etc...
I am holding and praying for this aspect of it all to go smoothly and try to keep my ego and old wounds out of it.
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So glad she made it through and is home. We did the same for my dad-in-love; he passed peacefully at home in his sleep a few months later, after barbecues, a trip across the Denali Highway (still mostly unpaved), lots of "kin" visits, etc.
FirstLight, you're doing the right thing. Ignore those who want to diss you for it. 
I still cry a lot. But I'd do it again! 
I like that, a lot! 
You still have this time to be together. It’s a very precious blessing.
Hugs.
We experienced a health issue with my mom in 2006. You cannot prepare for something like this.
Love to mom, you and yours.
Y'all being in continual remembrance to God since I read about your situation. And I do not say that superficially or casually.
